Lead Shot Ban

[Otto Matic]

"... Yes it kind of does make it worthless. ..."
Why? Because YOU say it is?

"... Finding someone on the internet that agrees with you isn’t hard and doesn’t make you “right” either. ..."
Nor does it make you "wrong".

"... The data matters. ..."
Sure it matters.....but only if it's correct. Flawed data can't be corrected simply by stamping it as "data".

You've been blinded that:
1) peer reviewed
2) research
3) data
4) scientific
all relate to indisputable truths.
They do not.

 

[shoots-straight]

I was a kid in the 60's too.
But I was raised in east Texas. We didn't have eagles or condors. We had plenty hawks, owls and buzzards.
There were game laws, both state and federal, that protected raptors even back then.
About the only hawk death potential was raiding gramma's chicken yard, unprotected power lines and old age!
A buzzards greatest threat of premature death was by auto windshield being flushed off road kill. (1)

I agree with you. I'd like to see a comparison of eagle deaths by windmill and lead ingestion. Same for condors.

I'd also like to know why the California Condor is the ONLY vulture endangered by lead ingestion.

Well, there's this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071801/

Lead poisoning in upland-foraging birds of prey in Canada - PubMed

We examined the degree of lead exposure, based on tissue-lead concentrations, in 184 raptors of 16 species found dead across Canada. The most prevalent species available for examination were Red-tailed hawks, Great horned owls, and Golden eagles (n = 131). The majority of individuals examined...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://science.peregrinefund.org/legacy-sites/conference-lead/PDF/0108%20Pain.pdf

Just a few minutes of searching.

You wish for a larger meaning and conspiracy to the attack on the use of lead, and aren't open to facts. IMO> It's like the Climate change denial argument, it's hard to support skeptical people for a reason, when facts bear out a logical conclusion.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Well, there's this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071801/

Lead poisoning in upland-foraging birds of prey in Canada - PubMed

We examined the degree of lead exposure, based on tissue-lead concentrations, in 184 raptors of 16 species found dead across Canada. The most prevalent species available for examination were Red-tailed hawks, Great horned owls, and Golden eagles (n = 131). The majority of individuals examined...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://science.peregrinefund.org/legacy-sites/conference-lead/PDF/0108%20Pain.pdf

Just a few minutes of searching.

You wish for a larger meaning and conspiracy to the attack on the use of lead, and aren't open to facts. IMO> It's like the Climate change denial argument, it's hard to support skeptical people for a reason, when facts bear out a logical conclusion.

Also there is a reason why lead is no longer in gasoline, new pipes, paint, etc.

 

[SAJ-99]

"... Yes it kind of does make it worthless. ..."
Why? Because YOU say it is?

"... Finding someone on the internet that agrees with you isn’t hard and doesn’t make you “right” either. ..."
Nor does it make you "wrong".

"... The data matters. ..."
Sure it matters.....but only if it's correct. Flawed data can't be corrected simply by stamping it as "data".

You've been blinded that:
1) peer reviewed
2) research
3) data
4) scientific
all relate to indisputable truths.
They do not.

Present data and I will look at it. Right now you are just arguing that the current data should be ignored because you don’t agree with it. I believe you called what you are doing as “deflect and redirect”.

 

[JLS]

I believe you called what you are doing as “deflect and redirect”.

Only the left does that.

 

[Hydrophilic]

Let me ask a "non peer reviewed" question.
There are vultures all across America.
I KNOW that thousands and thousands of deer are killed every year in just two states, Texas and Oklahoma, and gut piles are left lying all over both states. I would venture MANY more gut piles than what is left in the Condor Corridor.

Question:
Why is the adult* California Condor the "ONLY" vulture in the United States whose supposed "leading cause of death" is the ingestion of lead particles from gut piles left by hunters using lead and lead based projectiles?
What makes the California Condor more susceptible to lead poisoning than any other flying scavengers? Buzzards? Crows? Ravens?**

* - the "peer reviewed" article I read stated that the "leading cause of death" in California Condor nestlings was the ingestion of "microtrash" that their parents fed them.
** - I'm going to opine that because the California Condor is "endangered", it's a convenient hook to hang a "lead ban" hat on.

Ep. 256: When They Come To Burn Your House Down | MeatEater Podcasts

Steven Rinella talks with Brandon Butler, Jim Heffelfinger, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis.Topics discussed: Steve's fourth quarantine and how his kids turned against their mother; when a poacher burns you down; how to support our buddy Brandon; Mingus the dog's first mountain...

www.themeateater.com

There is a short discussion on lead science and if I remember correctly it covers your turkey vulture question.
Start at 01:22:30

 

[Otto Matic]

Well, there's this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071801/

Lead poisoning in upland-foraging birds of prey in Canada - PubMed

We examined the degree of lead exposure, based on tissue-lead concentrations, in 184 raptors of 16 species found dead across Canada. The most prevalent species available for examination were Red-tailed hawks, Great horned owls, and Golden eagles (n = 131). The majority of individuals examined...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

http://science.peregrinefund.org/legacy-sites/conference-lead/PDF/0108%20Pain.pdf

Just a few minutes of searching.

You wish for a larger meaning and conspiracy to the attack on the use of lead, and aren't open to facts. IMO> It's like the Climate change denial argument, it's hard to support skeptical people for a reason, when facts bear out a logical conclusion.

Present data and I will look at it. Right now you are just arguing that the current data should be ignored because you don’t agree with it. I believe you called what you are doing as “deflect and redirect”.

You both insist that lead ingestion is the leading cause of Condor death is an "indisputable" truth.

My point is that your accepted "indisputable" truth, is indeed "disputable".
"Peer reviewed" papers can be wrong.
"Research" and "data" can be misconstrued.

A researcher placed a grasshopper on a table.
He slapped the table and said, "Hop!" and the grasshopper hopped.
He noted the results.
Then he pulled one of the grasshoppers legs off, slapped the table and said, "Hop!" and the grasshopper hopped.
He noted the results.
He then pulled the other leg off, slapped the table and said, "Hop!", but the grasshopper did not hop.
He noted the results as, "Grasshoppers without legs can't hear."

DTMHGTICTWYFMALOS

 

[Otto Matic]

Ep. 256: When They Come To Burn Your House Down | MeatEater Podcasts

Steven Rinella talks with Brandon Butler, Jim Heffelfinger, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, and Janis Putelis.Topics discussed: Steve's fourth quarantine and how his kids turned against their mother; when a poacher burns you down; how to support our buddy Brandon; Mingus the dog's first mountain...

www.themeateater.com

There is a short discussion on lead science and if I remember correctly it covers your turkey culture question.
Start at 01:22:30

That would be interesting...except it wouldn't pull up on my phone. I don't have a computer.
(turkey "culture"? I know, "vulture".)

 

[Otto Matic]

A little (?) off topic, but a sample of what I'm talking about.

Pres. Trump was scoffed at, laughed at and ridiculed for telling California to "clean up it's forests" to help control forest fires.
Pundits, reporters, scientists, media all claimed "climate change" was the cause of the forest fires and Trump was wrong.
Guess what California is doing now to reduce forest fires?

Trump Gets Proven Right Again on 'Climate Change,' This Time by California

redstate.com

Killing the messenger doesn't change the message.

 

[sierrahunter]

Trump wasn’t wrong about the need for thinning California forests. He was wrong about who is responsible. The federal government controls about half of California’s forest. The State owns about 4% of California’s land base. But something tells me your mind is already made up on this one.

 

[JLS]

Make America Rake Again: Finland baffled by Trump's forest fire raking claim

Social media users mock US president’s insistence on Finnish forest defence method

www.google.com

 

[JLS]

Fire Fix Funding Issues?

Came across this article and a couple paragraphs towards the end caught my attention. I know the Fire Fix was suppose to hit this year's budget, but are there components that did not? Anyone have any better insight on this? Conservationists and wildfire policy experts agree that money is...

www.hunttalk.com

 

[Otto Matic]

Trump wasn’t wrong about the need for thinning California forests. He was wrong about who is responsible. The federal government controls about half of California’s forest. The State owns about 4% of California’s land base. But something tells me your mind is already made up on this one.

It's not who is responsible, it's the fact it wasn't done.
It seems to me the "tree huggers" in CA got all bent out of shape when the USFS tried to do "controlled burns" and have dead standing timber removed. It wasn't "natural". Same reason they have bear and cougar attacks. No hunting seasons.

Now, I could be wrong. Have you ever been wrong?

 

[sierrahunter]

It's not who is responsible, it's the fact it wasn't done.
It seems to me the "tree huggers" in CA got all bent out of shape when the USFS tried to do "controlled burns" and have dead standing timber removed. It wasn't "natural". Same reason they have bear and cougar attacks. No hunting seasons.

Now, I could be wrong. Have you ever been wrong?

I may have been wrong once, but I could be wrong.
We do have a bear season.

 

[Otto Matic]

Coming back on point

I may have been wrong once, but I could be wrong.
We do have a bear season.

...and you will be again....and again.
Just like you have been in the past.
It's no big deal.
Being wrong from time to time is a malady we all suffer as human "beans".

 

[shoots-straight]

Coming back on point

...and you will be again....and again.
Just like you have been in the past.
It's no big deal.
Being wrong from time to time is a malady we all suffer as human "beans".

If I may? Some suffer from the "Malady" more often than others. Leaning curve can be steeper to climb.

 

[Dave N]

 

[rwc101]

Friendly reminder that just because you drive past a pig rolling in shit you don't have to pull over and join him.

Happy Sunday.

 

[Cheesehead]

Friendly reminder that just because you drive past a pig rolling in shit you don't have to pull over and join him.

Happy Sunday.

And a friendly reminder of that handy ‘Ignore’ button

 

[Otto Matic]

If I may? Some suffer from the "Malady" more often than others. Leaning curve can be steeper to climb.

I suppose you may, if you think you can climb that steep curve. !